The Beast Who Stole Bride's Name

She was never meant to be the bride. She was meant to be invisible.Vittoria Rossi has spent her life as the daughter no one acknowledges, watching from the margins while her half sister Isabella lived the golden life Vittoria was never permitted to claim. When Isabella vanishes without a trace, their father makes a desperate choice: send Vittoria to take her place, first for quiet appearances, and finally, when there is no other option, at the altar itself. Fourteen months of careful performance end in a single unforgivable lie, one that binds her forever to the most feared man on the eastern seaboard under a name that was never hers.They call Dante Salvatore the Beast, and everyone who has ever crossed him knows exactly why. He does not expect warmth from his contracted bride. He does not expect honesty. What he does not expect, the moment he lifts her veil, is that the woman standing before him is not the one he agreed to marry at all.He knows within days. He says nothing.What begins as patient, calculated observation becomes something Dante has spent his entire life refusing to feel: genuine, consuming want for a woman wearing a stolen name. But every secret has a price, and the deeper Vittoria digs into the fortune that bound their families together, the closer she comes to a decades old truth that will force her husband to choose between everything he inherited and everything he has finally learned to want. A rival is already circling, patient enough to wait for exactly this kind of fracture.Some marriages are built on love. Theirs was built on a lie neither of them chose, and a desire neither of them can control.THE BEAST WHO STOLE THE BRIDE'S NAME is a dark, high heat mafia romance about the names we're given, the names we steal, and the risk of finally being seen exactly as we are.